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Benedict’s Daughter: Poems

As I read Benedict’s Daughter, by Philip C. Kolin, I was treated to the talent of a veteran author who has already published several books of poetry. With poetic rhythm and stunning imagery, Kolin’s poems manage to get to the heart of the matter. With his gift of poetic sight, he is able to bring the reader […]

Poem: “Hanger Shirts”

Feb 7 17 • Tim Bete • 0 comments

Hanger Shirts Each year before school started, mother led him to the store, through the men’s department, past the boys’ clothing to the back room with the faded cardboard sign that said: Irregulars. He didn’t know what made him irregular— perhaps it was the birthmark on his left leg or the cowlick of hair he […]

she: robed and wordless

Feb 6 17 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

she: robed and wordless I opened this jewel of a book, hoping beyond hope that it would be filled with the type of poems that would inspire my prayers. I was not disappointed. After reading through the poems in Sister Lou Ella Hickman’s new collection, I am pleased to say she has done a wonderful job. […]

A ‘Marshall Plan’ for Iraq: Rebuilding Christian Villages on the Nineveh Plains

Feb 3 17 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

By Maria Lozano NEW YORK—“Hope is coming back to the Nineveh plains!” That is the verdict of the Middle East expert of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the international Catholic charity. Just back from a fact-finding mission to the region in northern Iraq recently liberated from the grip of ISIS, Father Andrzej Halemba […]

Marriage – A Turning Point

Feb 2 17 • Randal Agostini • 0 comments

Christmas has always been a season of Hope, especially for children and most especially for young children. We invest so much in our children, trying to make them happy, secure and successful. But new statistics have shown how our secular lifestyles are threatening their future, the future of society. As Christians we are not supposed […]

For Groundhog’s Day — An Interview with Punxsutawney Phil

Feb 2 17 • Tom Purcell • 1 comment

Every Feb. 2, Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog, is pulled from a tree stump in Punxsutawney, PA. If he sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn’t, spring is just ahead. In a 2010 interview, I asked Phil about a request made by the People for the Ethical Treatment of […]

Poem: “Calm My Childish Fear”

Feb 2 17 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

Calm My Childish Fear Here I am, Lord, sitting at your feet, Awaiting Your command; Lord, what is it you seek? Am I to do a major thing or something oh so small? Whatever it is you ask, Lord, I will do it all. For I know no matter what the task, I do not […]

End the Media

Jan 30 17 • Daniel Greenfield • 1 comment

The press corps is the embodiment of the old establishment.

Poem: “A Better Resurrection”

Jan 29 17 • Christina Rossetti • 0 comments

A Better Resurrection I HAVE no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, […]

House Bill on No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Is Stronger than Hyde Amendment

Jan 27 17 • Jonathan Abbamonte • 1 comment

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would permanently prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortion. The bill , titled the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Disclosure Act of 2017” (H.R. 7), would amend federal law to make the Hyde Amendment permanent. Currently, the Hyde […]

Poem: “The Convert”

Jan 25 17 • G.K. Chesterton • 0 comments

The Convert After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and came upright, And I came out where the old road shone white, I walked the ways and heard what all men said, Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed, Being not unlovable but strange and light; Old riddles […]

New US UN Ambassador Nominee Stands by Pro-Life Position at Confirmation Hearing

Jan 23 17 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 3 comments

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for United States UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, repeatedly asserted her pro-life views during her Wednesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The South Carolina Governor promised to be a force for reform of the UN system if approved for the position. “I am strongly pro-life,” Haley said in response […]

My Masterpiece

Jan 22 17 • Greg Schlueter • 2 comments

Rediscover your Master.

Poem: “Just As I Am / Through a Glass Darkly”

Jan 20 17 • Joann Nelander • 0 comments

Just As I Am / Through a Glass Darkly Just as I am, All that I am, You behold me. I see so little, So little of me, So little of You. “Through a glass darkly” Sufficiency suffices, In Faith, believing. Mingled here, Your Mercy, Grandeur, clouded in Mystery, I rest as a babe. Just […]

Prayers For Our Country

Jan 20 17 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

From the Roman Missal.

Fall of the Fake News Crusade

Jan 19 17 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

The news media is just another arm of a politicized entertainment industry.

Undeserving

Jan 16 17 • Barb Lishko • 2 comments

I woke up this morning. I could have instead been meeting my Maker, sautéing like a piece of human bacon in the eternal frying pan or dancing with angels. You must have woken too or you wouldn’t be reading this. Have you ever put much thought in that? Waking up in the morning is not even […]

Archbishop Carlson Defends Life

Jan 16 17 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

You may have heard of sanctuary cities and thought the term only applied to a city that protects illegal immigrants. But if you thought that was the case, you would be wrong—at least when it comes to St. Louis, Missouri. According to a recent St. Louis public radio report: “Two St. Louis aldermen, in partnership […]

Mother and Son Survived Two Years Under the Thumb of the Islamic State

Jan 13 17 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

By Jaco Klamer Late last year, Ismail fled Mosul with his mother Jandark Behnam Mansour Nassi (55), the two having survived ISIS’ reign of terror for two years. From the safety of Erbil, Kurdistan, the Iraqi Christians, former residents of the town of Bartella, on the Nineveh plain, told their story to international Catholic charity […]

Bioethics 2016: Winners and Losers

Jan 13 17 • Jennifer Lahl • 0 comments

Each year at this time we look back over the past twelve months with an eye toward identifying those whose lives and work actively promoted and affirmed a truly human future, and those who did not. Winners: Stephanie Packer is more than a winner; she really is a hero. Sitting down with her while making […]

Poem: “Christ, Cross, Choice”

Jan 12 17 • Guy McClung • 0 comments

Christ, Cross, Choice Innocent, Jesus, you were judged guilty and condemned to death. Uncomplaining, You received, accepted, and embraced Your cross. You fell under the cross You had chosen, but you stood up, supporting it, to be with your Mother Mary, to feel her love. Simon helped you carry it and Veronica comforted You as […]

Poem: “Thurible”

Jan 7 17 • Tim Bete • 0 comments

Thurible Dimly-lit church, empty except for the strong lingering scent of spicy-sweet smoke from a funeral earlier in the day. Gray rising clouds no longer visible, stale recollections left behind with memories of a soul I did not know. Lives sputter and ignite like aromatic crystals heaped onto blistering coals, souls billowing and ascending. Tim […]

Epiphany: The Light of the World

Jan 6 17 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

Rome is known as the Eternal City for good reason. One of the city’s ancient marvels is the Egyptian obelisk in Saint Peter’s Square, a block of marble as tall as a tree that weighs 330 tons. Erected as a monument to Pharaoh in 1850 BC, it stood watch over the whole of Egyptian history, […]

Trump Faces a Different Sort of UN Reform

Jan 6 17 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

Holding the UN more accountable isn’t just about using the power of the President and Congress to withhold funds—as past Republican administrations have rightly but perhaps restrictively tended to do. The incoming U.S. administration and Congress have an immediate opportunity for real UN reform, but it means reining-in an ever more intrusive UN bureaucracy, especially […]

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